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Hot and Bothered

How To: See Like a Cinematographer

Hot and Bothered

Not Sorry Productions

Society & Culture, Feminism, Books, Relationships, Arts, Intersectionality

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

When watching at rom-com, have you ever noticed that the stars just kind of glow? That their skin looks silky smooth and their apartments are always sun-drenched? Lighting design and camera movement play a huge role in giving rom-coms their particular aesthetic, and those things (we're pretty sure) are part of the art of cinematography. This week, to help us understand the history of cinematography and the particular look of How to Lose A Guy in 10 Days, we have Chris Cagle on the show.


Chris Cagle is an associate professor of film history and theory in the Film and Media Arts department at Temple University. His book, Sociology on Film: Postwar Hollywood's Prestige Commodity, examines the 1940s social problem film as both a form of popular sociology and a strain of middlebrow "prestige" cinema. Additionally, he has published essays in Cinema JournalScreen, and Quarterly Review of Film and Video, and in a number of edited volumes, including most recently Cinematography and Middlebrow Cinema


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Register before the first class on June 23rd by going on Not Sorry Works.com, that's N-O o r r r r r y w o r k s dot com Test me. I kind of think that if you show me a hundred stills from a hundred

1:08.4

different movies I could tell you what genre of movie it was based on the look of it. Like I think I'd get a B-plus on this

1:16.2

test. Some of that is costuming and set design like we talked about with Stuart Blatt. But a lot of it is something called cinematography.

1:25.8

Unfortunately, I don't know what cinematography is.

1:31.3

I vaguely think it has something to do with cameras, but most of what I know about

1:35.7

cinematography is from the documentary TV show Dawson's Creek. I'm picturing Dawson

1:42.1

in a wheelchair with Joey pulling him so there's a smooth shot

1:46.0

one without the camera jostling. But Dawson was the director of his student films

1:51.5

so I don't know where the director ends and the cinematographer begins.

1:56.0

In watching How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days so many times, so many times over the last six months, so many times. I have noticed some things that I think are related to cinematography.

2:13.0

The way that Ben's office is lit is really different from the way that

2:17.0

Andy's office is lit, for example.

2:19.0

And I'm sure that those things work on me in ways that I can't understand.

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